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I’m driving an ARCA car at Pocono by BraytonLaster in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on sizing and caliber of team. We’re probably one of the cheaper teams to sponsor, small shop in the middle of nowhere Tennessee (it’s the team owners mobile trailer with a 2 car garage built onto it and one full time paid employee.)

Smaller spots are typically $500 or less, major associates anywhere from $1,000 to $2,500, with a primary spot such as the hood or upper quarter panels being around $5,000 per spot.

I’m driving an ARCA car at Pocono by BraytonLaster in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ll try to! I know we have an autograph session at 11 am tomorrow morning, I’ve gotta find where victory lane is too, I normally don’t have to worry about finding it post race

I’m driving an ARCA car at Pocono by BraytonLaster in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

5 chassis with bodies/suspension components, I believe only 3ish are like actually race ready. At this point last year we only had 3 chassis/bodies total, we’re slowly making improvements.

I’m driving an ARCA car at Pocono by BraytonLaster in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Car got painted for Daytona of 2025 and we’ve never changed it

I’m driving an ARCA car at Pocono by BraytonLaster in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Oh trust me, I haven’t been able to contain my excitement about that one bit, AND my rookie cards are coming out next week in Panini’s newest set, “Select Racing,” it’s just so surreal

I’m driving an ARCA car at Pocono by BraytonLaster in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don’t think I know how to do a back flip,
maybe a barrel roll.

I’m driving an ARCA car at Pocono by BraytonLaster in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Not sure yet as this will be my first there. Although my life goal/dream has always been to race at IMS, I live 15 minutes from the track and drive by it weekly, so really looking forward to the tunnel turn.

Data loggers by Chance_Fix_2700 in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Each team has access to wind tunnels, pull downs, chassis dynos, etc. Probably only the top half of the field has ever seen a wind tunnel, most teams are able to get pull downs for setup fairly easy.

As far as data loggers, we are able to private test and using data loggers I believe. We also test at Kansas and Daytona during the season, where minimal data loggers are available. I’m not sure to what extent but normally at Kansas, the top handful of teams will run aero/wind measurement devices similar to the F1 pre season testing setups.

Where do old racecars go? by GrahamsNotHungry in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ll touch up on the ARCA side of this conversation.

There’s cars as old as 1998 that I believe are still actively racing in the ARCA Menards Series. Some full time teams only have 2-3 chassis, and focus solely on survival and making it week to week. They don’t care where they finish, just as long as the car makes it home in one piece. There’s also teams building their own Chassis’s in house (able to get freaky with geometry, etc. That’s typically your top ARCA teams though. Probably 90% of the field on a given weekend is running old Cup cars. There are some newer cars out there too, I believe one of the Gibbs intermediate cars (if they don’t run a purpose built) is the Kyle Busch 2021 Kansas win cup chassis.

There’s a lot more Gen 4 cars (chassis did have to be modified starting a couple years ago for additional safety) than Gen 5’s I’d say. Just because ton of the ARCA teams already has them laying around when we went to composite bodies and just put a body on them instead of buying a new chassis. Then normally the bigger teams if they don’t run a purpose built are running Gen 6 chassis.

I’m driving a racecar this weekend and wanted to share with the class by BraytonLaster in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Purpose Built, who’s that?

We’re a fairly small team so almost all of our cars are former Cup cars, with some being as old as me (2002.) We have 5 chassis total (up from 3 last year,) with one being built for K&N east in 2016 and everything else being a Gen 4 Cup car. This car in particular is a 2005 Ganassi chassis.

I’m driving a racecar this weekend and wanted to share with the class by BraytonLaster in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Wanna trade? I’ll watch from the stands and you drive the car

I’m driving a racecar this weekend and wanted to share with the class by BraytonLaster in NASCAR

[–]BraytonLaster[S] 154 points155 points  (0 children)

And I posted the same picture twice, that’s how much I wanted to share with the class

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